Quotes by Writers

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate. Nicolas Chamfort
Easier Some Some Things Than Legalize Legitimate Things
Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich. Nicolas Chamfort
Fashion Change Rich Vanity Industry Tax Poor Levied
People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess. Nicolas Chamfort
Kindness Heart People Head Governed Chess Little Use
Because revenge is a very known feeling in American culture, there's a certain element of an eye for an eye. There's the saying, 'Be careful what you wish for, you might get it.' When you wish for revenge, and you think you've gotten it, what happens then? Revenge is just a really good drive for drama and good action. Niels Arden Oplev
Saying Good You Culture Revenge Drive Feeling Wish Action Think Drama Eye Eye For An Eye Be Careful Known Because Gotten Very Get American Just American Culture Happens Might Good Action Then Really Certain Element Careful
The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all together then that's fun to write. Nigel Kneale
Together Out Paradox Trick Inside Inside-Out Total Something Write Normality Different Story Then Turning Turns Your Fun Different Thing Appears Suddenly Now Thing
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past. Nikolai Gogol
Life Moving On Joy Will Past Whatever Our Everywhere Woven Some Sorrows Flash Which Across Radiant
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord. Nikolai Gogol
Beautiful Will Beauty Own Think Come Always Accord Useful
A weak soul does not have the endurance to resist the flesh for very long. It grows heavy, becomes flesh itself, and the contest ends. But among responsible men, men who keep their eyes riveted day and night upon the Supreme Duty, the conflict between flesh and spirit breaks out mercilessly and may last until death. Nikos Kazantzakis
Death Day Soul Eyes Conflict Men Long Duty Weak Out Responsible Spirit Day And Night Between Until Supreme Contest Becomes Does Itself Very May Ends Endurance Heavy Breaks Flesh Who Keep Among Grows Resist Last Night
Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to unfasten your belt and look for a fight. Nikos Kazantzakis
Life Death Fight Trouble Alive Only Look Your Belt
In order to mount to the Cross, the summit of sacrifice, and to God, the summit of immateriality, Christ passed through all the stages which the man who struggles passes through. Nikos Kazantzakis
God Man Christ Sacrifice Summit Cross Struggles Through Passed Passes Mount Order Stages Which Who
Throughout my life my greatest benefactors have been my dreams and my travels; very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my struggle. Nikos Kazantzakis
Life Dreams Me Struggle Men My Life Few Living Throughout Dead Greatest Been Very Few Men Helped Travels
The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty. Nikos Kazantzakis
Soul Nothing Perceptions Divine Clearly Still Human Heavy Clumsy Held Mud Flesh Coarse Certainty Human Soul
All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story... They are terrible people. Nina Bawden
People Events Better Own Liars All Writers Writers Make Terrible Tragedies Story Themselves Use Twist Suit
When you find yourself on the Internet when you're supposed to be writing, you've already lost. It's even beyond procrastination when you end up on the Internet. Noah Baumbach
You Yourself Writing Procrastination Internet Lost Find Supposed Beyond End Up Even
Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty. Norman Douglas
First Duty Civic Distrust Be The First Authority Should
Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends. Norman Douglas
Home Man He Merely Opened His Discovers Friends Tavern Who Many Found Thinks
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes. Norman Douglas
Education Echoes
East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State. O. Henry
People State Francisco East Merely Californians West According San San Francisco Race Inhabitants
Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills. O. Henry
You Try Country Nothing Live Once Citizenship Archives More Beyond Obtain Hills Court Than Move Which Pack Little Bohemia Away Treasure Royal
When I was 7 and went to the zoo with my second-grade class, I saw chimpanzee eyes for the first time - the eyes of an unhappy animal, all alone, locked in a bare, concrete-floored, iron-barred cage in one of the nastier, old-fashioned zoos. I remember looking at the chimp, then looking away. Octavia E. Butler
Alone Time Class Eyes Animal Remember Unhappy First Looking Saw Locked Cage First Time Then Bare Old-Fashioned Away Zoo
Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy. Octavia E. Butler
Enemy Tend Most Us Careful
In countries where there are no racial differences or no religious differences, people find other reasons to set aside one certain group of people and generally spit in their direction. Octavia E. Butler
People Differences Group Other Find Religious Direction Spit Generally Countries Where Aside Racial Certain Reasons Set
Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Truth Light Rarely Sought After
Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Cincinnati Worse Comfort Maker Sounds Verse Chicago Rough
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Good Man Science Patient Sense Worse Furniture Plenty More He Piece First-Rate Got His Upper Common Common Sense Chamber
Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Life Good You Too Much Too Air Pleasures Bad Take Most Fresh Fresh Air Achievements Much
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